NEWS

Warcreatures is entering a new phase. Many changes and a few surprises await us this year. I’ll tell you about the plans for 2026 and what this new stage entails. For the past few months, I’ve been thinking about all the aspects the project needs to improve to reach the next level, and I’ve come to some interesting conclusions.

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Warcreatures: Phase 2

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· Improve the website experience

The official Warcreatures website has long been incomplete and outdated, preventing visitors from getting a true picture of the project’s current status. Once Phase 2 is complete, that will be a thing of the past. The website is currently being redesigned and will now have a much better presence and feature new content regularly.

· Publish version 2.0 of Warcreatures: The Roleplaying Game

After initial playtesting, Warcreatures: The Roleplaying Game underwent an intensive revision and rewriting process. Version 2.0 of the manuscript will be available soon and will include a host of new features.

· Launch the first edition of World of Skeleton

This spring, the first novel in the Warcreatures universe will be released. World of Skeletons will be the first in a tetralogy.

· Publicar el primer capítulo del nuevo Cómic

Those first pages of the Sandra & Titan comic should be relegated to a mere anecdote. The new comic will feature better illustrations and a completely different premise. The first chapter will arrive this summer. It will be available for free on the official Warcreatures website, replacing those first pages that have haunted me for so long.

· Launch the first Warcreatures: TCG collection

That first project that started it all and gave rise to the Warcreatures universe cannot be forgotten. Development of Warcreatures: TCG is resuming with a new approach. The first Warcreatures: TCG collection should be complete by the end of the year.

· Presenting the technical demonstration of Warcreatures: The Video Game

After many attempts, countless tests, prototype after prototype, years of incomprehensible lines of code and unspoken frustrations, I’ve finally struck a balance between what I’d like to do and what I can actually do. There’s still a lot of work to be done, but at the end of Phase 2, you’ll be able to see a complete technical demonstration, more or less faithful to the final result of Warcreatures: The Video Game.

· Form a team

Creating a universe on my own is an exciting experience, but to reach the next level, sooner or later, one way or another, I’ll need to build a team. To complete Phase 2, I’ll need to assemble a group of exceptional artists who are experts in the various areas of the project’s development. They will form the Warcreatures development team and will accompany us on this journey indefinitely.

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In summary; phase 2 aims to consolidate the years of work that have brought the project to its current state and prepare it to receive a wider audience.

November 24th marked three years since the Warcreatures project was born. So much has changed since that day, but the excitement of sharing it with you remains. Let’s take a look back at these three years of creating Warcreatures.

We’ve traveled to the end of 2022. While designing the first prototype of the card game, I ventured into creating my own video game.

The protagonist, a beast tamer, was to travel across an island capturing and training dinosaurs for combat. The video game idea was discarded a few months later, but during development, some characters took shape, including Sandra and Titan.

Buckle up. We’re going to February 2023.

Sandra and Titan captivated me instantly. I knew then that they had many adventures to tell. Two characters who were initially going to be secondary became the protagonists.

A ton of ideas flooded my mind. So, I felt confident enough to create a comic. I published a few pages. It wasn’t exactly a masterpiece, but that’s when the first antagonist appeared: Mónica, a formidable woman.

March 2023, Las Fortunas.

I’m looking for people to collaborate on the project, without much success, and I’ve become obsessed with giving Warcreatures a cyberpunk feel. Mónica goes from being a low-life smuggler to the owner of a prestigious fighting school, so she needs fighters. Rayco is the first of them, but others will appear later. In the summer of that same year, I published my first short story, “Black Blizzards,” with Rayco as the protagonist.

I’m still working on the video game and the comic. I’ve been worldbuilding like crazy, and I just finished the Warcreatures website. I’m starting to think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew… No matter, I want to keep going. I need an image to promote the website on social media. Then a new fighter appears: Yanira. Someone indignantly commented that she’s missing an arm. It really annoyed me. How could they expect me to do both?

April 2023.

Sandra and Titan continue to gain prominence. I keep improving my drawing and programming skills. That’s when Titan gets his signature look.

The comic idea is starting to feel like a burden, but it doesn’t matter, nobody’s expecting me to do it.

The dinosaur-catching game doesn’t seem to be making the splash I hoped for either. I need to rethink all of this…

A new idea is about to emerge with two rascals causing chaos in Las Fortunas.

May 2023.

I know because my back hurts from all the drawing.

I’ve been learning 3D modeling and animation. I don’t want to make a 2D video game anymore; now I want it to be 3D… a third-person action-adventure game… Sandra and Titan will be the protagonists. Can you picture it? I have a story to tell!

I’m looking for artists for the soundtrack and I’ve found Jairo Guitarreao. I’m listening to his music and wow! I just had an idea for a character. Aarón Ciencuerdas emerges to terrorize the seas.

Now we jump to June 2023.

Making video games turns out to be slower than expected. One mistake brings everything to a standstill. I need to learn more to make this work.

Meanwhile, how about a tabletop RPG? I’ve made many in the past, but this time I’m serious, and I have some very original ideas, right?

Or not… Social media is frantically showing me anything, existing or yet to be, that resembles Warcreatures. The competition is fierce… and growing.

I’m learning that originality isn’t valued in this era: This is a war of visibility.

Another time jump! Where have we ended up? Oh, yes… It’s July 2023.

I’m about to publish my first short story. I’m also translating the website into Japanese. After all, it’s all Japan’s fault…

I’ve lowered the Patreon subscription levels to €100, €200, and €300, but no one’s subscribed yet. Maybe I’m asking for too much…

The TCG development is temporarily suspended this month.

I’m going to do a comic with a friend; he’ll write it and I’ll draw it. Spoiler alert: it’ll be a bad idea and a waste of time. For me, this is more than just a hobby.

The heat is becoming unbearable, and I’m starting to think I’m the only one who doesn’t mind working “for free.” I’m motivated by making my own covers. Now it’s all cover after cover! I can’t stop!

I’m not a great artist yet, but digital art has opened up a world of colors and possibilities. I’m going to save a ton of money! And the best part: I’m bringing my characters to life.

I could do this forever.

What’s that smell? Oh no! The time machine has broken down!

Great… We’re stuck in July 2023. If we stay here, we’ll have to listen to “flowers” for the rest of our lives.

I’ll try to fix it. You’d better step back; this could be dangerous.

Back! Quick!

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The machine is working again! Let’s go to our next stop: August 2023.

I’m still improving my game development skills. I’m getting closer to my goal, but I still face many difficulties. The main problem is that I’m learning by trial and error. If I had a good teacher, I’d know how to fix this bug…

The tabletop role-playing game keeps me busy. It helps with worldbuilding. I’ve made a lot of progress.

How Sandra and Titan have grown… It’s time to make another cover.

My YouTube channel is about to reach 500 subscribers, and yet I haven’t managed to connect with my audience. It’s frustrating… Should I give up? No. I must keep going. I just need to keep working and learning. I love what I do. Give me five years, just five. I’ll find my audience.

It’s November 2023.

It’s almost been a year, and I haven’t finished a single project. Things are thought of faster than they’re done.

As if I didn’t have enough on my plate, I’m now working on a prototype for a board game. I know I should focus on just one thing, but at least it’s all about Warcreatures.

After a whole year working on the same idea, I still believe in it, and that’s what matters most. I’m reaching a personal milestone. I should celebrate, but it’s not a good time for celebrations.

Until now, I didn’t know it, but now I do: I want to make figures from the Warcreatures universe. I just need a 3D printer. I can make the models myself… I have to do an illustration with all the characters I’ve published!

Well, when you look at them like this, they don’t seem like that many. I should create more…

Let’s move on.

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Damn it! Now the time machine has frozen!

Let my past self improve his animation skills and help me thaw it, or we’ll be stuck in November 2023.

What was that noise?

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I think my past self just opened a rift in spacetime. I’d completely forgotten about this… Look! She’s just brought back a character from the past. She’s changed quite a bit, but I recognize her. It’s Jane Blockport, she was born in my first board game project.

December 2023… Happy Holidays!

I’m still learning how to make video games. I try different prototypes, different ideas; but I can’t achieve the technical quality I’d like, so they end up in a drawer. I’m not discouraged. At this point, I know this is a marathon, or rather: a long climb.

No time to rest! Let’s jump to February 2024.

AI is increasingly on everyone’s lips, and I, who consider myself an artist, can do nothing but declare war on it.

I’m also experimenting with the anime style. I’m going to send a job application to a renowned Spanish video game designer who’s looking for illustrators.

Spoiler alert: no luck.

Get ready to gain altitude. From now on, we’ll be traveling faster.

I’m still refining the anime style, although that won’t help me get funding for now. They’re going to hire someone else for the illustrator job, and I’ll have to keep fighting for a slice of cake. That’s just how it is! While some are soaring through the skies, others are stuck running.

Let’s go to March 2024!

Not much to see here: more drawings, more learning; we keep rowing.

No! Don’t unbuckle your seatbelt yet. The next time jump will be in exactly 3 seconds.

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May 2024

I’ve been working hard on the role-playing game. I’ve published it for free online and I’m eager to test it.

I’m trying to get the word out, but it’s so difficult…

Ibericangamer was very kind to share it for X.

I finally managed to run a few sessions and it helped me figure out what worked and what didn’t: Back to the Craftsman’s Bench.

Do you feel dizzy, nauseous, heartburn, or itchy? No? I ask because too much time travel can have side effects. For our safety, we’ll only make a few more jumps and return to the present.

Hold on tight!

October 2024. I have too many projects and I haven’t finished any of them yet. It’s time to get my bearings and take stock.

No. I’ve been thinking about writing a novel for a while now; the last piece of the puzzle. I need to add one more project to the list.

Let’s go! I’m starting to feel a bit itchy… February 2025!

I don’t know it yet, but my computer is about to explode—literally.

I’ll have to do without it for a while and figure out how to keep working on the project. That will push me to read more than ever, which will eventually give me the courage to write the first chapters of my novel. However, I won’t be doing any drawings for quite some time.

Last stop: August 2025.

It was my birthday recently, so I treated myself to the components I needed for my desktop computer.

Focusing on writing the novel has been very enriching, but it’s time to get back to the helm. What should I do first?

I need to finish that drawing I started…

Our time travel has come to an end. Let’s return to the present.

As you can see; Until then, it had all been unbridled creativity. A chaotic jumble of dreams and ideas that somehow shaped what is now Warcreatures. During that time, I accomplished a lot (for someone with only one pair of arms) and learned a great deal, but I began to feel like I was adrift in an undefined course.

I needed a real plan. It was time to move on to phase 2.

Hello Warcreatures! Jochewi here one more day with Thursday’s news, late, as always. First of all, wish you a lucky new year. This is a date on which I usually reflect and take a pause to take stock of what I have done in the last year, detect the points in which I should improve and set some resolutions to fulfill before the end of the new year.

2024 is presented as an opportunity to put into practice everything learned during the previous year. Now I am focused on launching Warcreatures: Las Fortunas Stories and that is undoubtedly my main purpose for this year, but not the only one, I want to continue improving the website and launch physical products on the market, such as the Warcreatures figure collection, Warcreatures: The Game RPG and Warcreatures: Arena.

I also have some personal issues that I would like to improve on. Last year I dedicated a huge number of hours to this project, I had a poor diet and I barely spent any time doing physical activities, so I have acquired a certain burden around my navel that I would like to get rid of. This year I’m going to work on it seriously, not just for aesthetic reasons, but because I’ve realized that I’m getting old, so I should start taking care of my health before it’s too late.

I would like to live long enough to see that my work has been completed, and you may have guessed that it is a quite ambitious work, so I hope to live a long time, for that reason I have also decided to leave all my vices. I am aware that a healthy life is not a guarantee of longevity, but at least for the duration of my existence I will give 100% of myself so that Warcreatures becomes a success.

I’m going to do everything in my power to become the most productive person you’ve ever met, that’s my promise for the new year. I know it’s going to be difficult and that I’m going to have a hard time at first, but I’m convinced that this is what I should do.

I am going to start recording a series of videos for the Warcreatures YouTube channel where I will be visiting different places on the islands that have served as inspiration for Las Fortunas. They are going to be personal videos, where I will be sharing some experiences, but I will also share curiosities from the Warcreatures universe, so I hope you don’t miss it. Lastly, I want to highlight that the development of Warcreatures: LFS is going from strength to strength.

I have been working intensely on the script, I have been doing tests to see that everything worked correctly, both on PC and Android, so, although I am terrible with estimates, I would like to be able to say that we will have a presentation video before it ends January, but first you will have to buy a license so that an appropriate song accompanies the illustrations.

Remember that you can write to me and send your feedback on any of my social networks.

Thank you very much for the support Warcreatures.

Whoa! What happened Warcreature? First of all, I want to apologize because I said I was going to publish news on the website every Thursday and I have not been complying. I know it’s not an excuse, but sometimes it becomes difficult to find a moment to organize ideas and communicate them eloquently when there are so many things to take care of for the project to move forward.

In other words, I haven’t bothered to write on the website because I was too excited working on other parts of the project, I hope you understand, but in any case I will do my best to meet my goal of making a post every Thursday from From now.

Another reason why I haven’t wanted to speak out too much lately is because I’m always thinking of new ideas and trying to expand the Warcreatures universe as much as possible, so I’ve realized that sometimes I make the mistake of rushing into announcing things and then I realize that everything is going to take much longer than I had imagined.

I can assure you that most of what I have been planning is going to come out at some point, this will be the greatest adventure of my life, I promise you. Perhaps it is too ambitious but it is not something that worries me, since grain by grain a mountain moves.

The most difficult thing so far has been to maintain order and correctly calculate the effort necessary to carry out each idea that I wanted to implement in the project, the second being a reason why I ended up discarding some ideas and postponing others for later, which It might seem like I’m never going to finish anything, but nothing could be further from the truth, I’m always moving forward, I work for hours every day to feed this monster I’ve created.

I’ve been reflecting on all this this month and have come to the conclusion that to avoid confusion I should aim low first and then move forward with more ambitious ideas. So I’m going to take one of my ideas, specifically the last one and conveniently the easiest to do, and I’m going to finish it once and for all.

This new idea is nothing more and nothing less than another video game. For those who are part of the Warcreatures community on Discord it is no surprise, but I have not wanted to reveal too much information yet, so there are still many surprises under the tree. This Thursday I will give you many details about the video game, but for now I will only tell you that it is a visual novel that will be available for PC and Android very, very soon. Right now it is in a fairly advanced stage of development and I just need to finish the funniest part. I can’t believe it! Of course, don’t expect something super cutting edge, it will be quite indie and very short, but if you give it a chance I assure you that you will be surprised, you’ll see.

With this im out. I’ll wait for you next week to give you more news about my first video game, which is finally very close to becoming a reality.

Thank you for your support Warcreature.

Jochewi here from the Warcreatures office to tell you some cool things. This year has been quite intense. I have been dedicating a lot of time to the Warcreatures universe, but there is still a long way to go, although there is no need to worry, since I will continue working hard to present new content so that this universe continues to expand more and more.

2023 has helped me learn a lot, but above all to define the path that Warcreatures is going to follow. You can still expect some surprises, but it is quite certain that comics, stories, video games, board games and figurines will be present in this adventure. And of course the dinosaurs!

I must admit that the website has not received love for a long time, it has been there almost from the beginning, and although at the beginning it served its purpose perfectly, I believe that now it does not represent the true potential of this project, so the time has come to give him a facelift.

You can expect interesting changes to the website soon, so visit it from time to time if you don’t want to miss any news.

I want to announce that soon I will publish new pages of the Sandra & Titan comic. I plan to redraw the pages that I already published, since now I have a little more technique with the graphic tablet and I think I can do it better, and I am also going to start telling the story from a moment earlier than I had originally thought, to so that you can learn in greater detail what Sandra’s life was like before finding Titan. So if you’ve been wanting to know what happens next, sorry, there’s still some time left, but I think it’ll be worth the wait.

I also want to inform you that from now on every Thursday I will be sharing news on the web about progress and other interesting things happening in the Warcreatures office. There are some great things coming up and I’m looking forward to sharing this experience with you.

Thanks for the support Warcreature!